Reel Critic: 'Monos'
By Nathan Newbold | September 19, 2019"Monos" is both beautiful and violent in its portrayal of a group of teenage soldiers.
Arts & Culture
Reel Critic: 'The Peanut Butter Falcon'
By Owen Mason-Hill | September 19, 2019"The Peanut Butter Falcon" is a film about self-discovery and self-definition through companionship.
Grads kick it old school during Alumni College weekend
By April Qian | September 12, 2019Late in the summer, 139 alumni arrived at Breadloaf for the 44th annual Alumni College weekend.
Off-Broadway babies: Potomac Theatre Project
By Sarah Boyle | September 12, 2019So, you want to be a Broadway star? For a few chosen Middlebury students, this dream becomes a reality each summer with the Potomac Theatre Project. The Potomac Theatre Project, or PTP/NYC, is a Middlebury Theatre Department program that allows undergraduate students to be a part of the professional ...
The Librarian is in
By Amelia Pollard | September 12, 2019Katrina Spencer is a Literatures & Culture Librarian in the Davis Family Library. In summary: A great listen for anyone interested in examining and undoing the impacts of toxic black masculinity. This album is the most striking I’ve encountered from recent memory and I mean that in reference ...
Hirschfield Film Series promises compelling, diverse season
By Elsa Korpi | September 12, 2019The Hirschfield International Film Series promises another packed season of screenings, launching with “Monos,” a Colombian “survivalist saga” directed by Alejandro Landes.
A new computer science building? Rather, an "interim academic space"
By Sabine Poux | September 12, 2019Take a tour of the college's most recent architectural endeavor: "the interim academic space."
The Performing Arts Series is celebrating its 100th anniversary; we should be celebrating, too
By Ben Beese | September 12, 2019With the start of the new semester, comes the opening of the 2019–2020 season of the Middlebury Performing Arts Series. This season is going to be spectacular, with old favorites such as cellist Sophie Shao (her 12th consecutive season at Middlebury) and pianist Paul Lewis (for his 22nd Middlebury ...
Middlebury Evacuated its School in Cameroon. Was it the Right Decision?
By Nick Garber | May 9, 2019Four students studying abroad in Middlebury’s school in Yaoundé, Cameroon, received a cryptic message from the program’s director, asking them to meet for dinner at the home of one of their host families.
‘Let There Be Dance’: Senior Dance Theses Dazzle
By John Vaaler | May 9, 2019“Chosen Family,” — the senior dance thesis that Caleb Green ’19, Lucy Grinnan ’19.5 and Maggie Phillips ’19 put on at the Dance Theater in the Mahaney Center for the Arts rocketed beyond the gray solar system of human predictability.
‘American Idiot’: Dark and Electrifying
By Coralie Tyler | May 9, 2019“American Idiot” electrifies, captivates and moves you.
Illimité: Student Start-Up Supports Entrepreneurs with Micro-Loans
By Meredith Robertson | May 9, 2019Illimité is a clothing and novelty item brand created by Lopez in 2019 as a platform to support entrepreneurs in developing countries across the world.
Film Department Honors Its Founder, Professor Ted Perry
By Will Digravio | May 9, 2019If you have taken a course in the Film & Media Culture Department, enjoyed a movie on the big screen in Dana Auditorium or snuck into Axinn 232 on a Friday night with some friends, you should thank Ted Perry.
Gensler Family Symposium Engages With the ‘Complex and Peculiar Lives of Intersectionality’
By Sadie Housberg | May 2, 2019“What exactly is intersectionality?” — this was one of many questions posed at last week's Gensler Symposium, which featured talks by several prominent scholars in feminist and queer studies.
Photos: Nocturne Embraces the Night
By Online Editor | May 2, 2019The Nocturne Arts Festival transformed a variety of locations across campus into art installations and music venues. The second annual Nocturne included music, poetry, food, dance, theater, film, arts and more, from Mead Chapel to the Knoll.
A Conversation With Writer Lore Segal
By Ben Beese | May 2, 2019Lore Segal’s book “The Journal I Didn’t Keep” holds the rare sort of eager silence most often found when reading to awestruck children
Reel Critic: ‘Too Late to Die Young’
By Sofia Makarova | May 2, 2019“Tarde Para Morir Joven” is set in the summer of 1990, in a newly democratic Chile shortly after the fall of the dictatorship
The Librarian Is In
By Online Editor | May 2, 2019May is mental health awareness month, so I’ve selected a CD in our collection called “Mental Illness” by my favorite artist, Aimee Mann. If you like beautiful melodies with acoustic guitar, keyboard and strings, check out this collection, which won the Grammy for best folk album in 2017. Why ...
A Peek Into the ‘Coolest Atoms in Vermont’
By April Qian | April 25, 2019Goodsell’s study of the laser-cooling of atoms began as an undergraduate at Bryn Mawr College and continued into her graduate and post-doctoral research at Harvard.
Hurricane Sandy Brings Sisters Together in ‘Violet Sisters’ Play
By Monique Santoso | April 25, 2019'The Violet Sisters' show relatable circumstances that make us ask ourselves how far we are willing to go and what we are willing to give up to pursue our dreams.